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KAsIMIR VOGEL, or LowEn1.,.;MAssAoHu'sELrfrs.

MACHINERY FOR MAKING wEAvERs7 HARNESS.

ySpecification of Letters Patent No.` 5,339', datedy October 23,181.47..

i To all whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, KASIMIR VOGEL, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,A have invented a new and useful Machine for the Manufacturing of Veavers Harness; and I :do hereby declare that the following is a full and eXac-t description thereof. v l

, The harness which is to be manufactured by means of the machine which I am about to describe, has the heddles :of which it 1s composed made of cord, or twine, rand these are to be yformed in `the manner described inV the specification of Letters Patent for va new manufacture of weavers harness, an

application Vfor which has been filed Ain the,

Patent Oflice of the lUnited States simul-l taneously with the present application; and it is to be understood that in describing this machine I use'the term harness, to designate the apparatus to be formed byk it in its finished state when prepared for use in the loom, and that by the term heddles, I intend the individual threads, orcords, vwhich when combined' together constitute the harness.

chine is representedas adapted to the making of two sets of harness, at the same time.

Figure 1, is a side elevation thereof.- Fig. 2,l isan end elevation of it. Fig. 3, a top view of the revolving'tables'and spindles;l

the cylinders around which the heddles are to be wound being removed, and theirplace represented by red lines, asis also the worm Fig wheel by which they are to be driven. et, is a view of the under side of the machine, showing the gearing by which the tables that carry the spindles are made to revolve,

In each of thev figures where ther same parts are represented, they are designated by the same letters of reference.l

A Fig. 1, is one of the cylinders around which the heddles are to be wound as the doubling and twisting proceeds;-.there are two such cylinders the places of which are shown by the red lines in Fig, 3.

B, B', B, B" are revolving tables; each of which is to carry three` spindles which are received in notched recesses a, a, a, made in them for that purpose. Each table has Asix such recesses, threev of which are to be occupied by spindles while the doubling and twistingisgoing on, -there being an occupied and an unoccupied recess In the accompanying drawing the. may

i alternatelyr an occupied recessk being;v

broughtl opposite to one that lis unoccupied in its fellow table vas therespectivepairs re`` .Y volve.H The tables B,and1B,rcOnstitute one pair, and the tables "B land B 'another pair, the two pairs forming two distinct' harnesses; but being driven by the same gearing.

1 C, C, are spindlespeachofwhich'is to be furnished with a-flier D, andeach Vspindle is to carry aspool b, furnished withsuitable yarn. The yarn passes up through a hole 1n the topfof the'fliers, or lover'adepressio'n calculatedtohold it vinplace, and it then passes undera recurved wire @,that is furnishedgwith a. perforatedweight d, at each end, through. which perforations the legs of thefliers npass, and serve as guides to the weights. vThe use of this device is to take.y up the vrequisite quantity of the slack of eachyarn, asfromfthe operation of` thek maf'V chine the yarn cannot be kept-,in an vequal Y stat-eoftension, thespindles being alternately shifted from one table to the'other Y for a purpose to be presently described.'`V

The form ofthe spindles is shown in Fig.

5, which-is al vertical section through the' axis of one of them; Fig. 6, yis a similar kSecrevolving table's, and the platform E, that vsustains them; i Q y .The -spindleshave each a groove e, in. its

ution through two ofthem, and through the I Isa.

lower part-,which is adapted to the recesses a, yof the tables along which they. may b e slid,y 99

from one to the other when therecesses yco-k incide. The platform E, ihas circular cavi-` ties f, f, made in it'to allow. the lower: endsv of the spindles to revolve Within them.Vv

F, F', are a fast and loose pulley ony the.,Y driving shaft G, a bevel. wheelI-I, on said shaft gives motion. to the revolving tablesY by an arrangement of vtoothed wheels,'which\V will be readily understood by an inspection of Fig. 4. It'also carries a beveled wheel I,` 1o.@ j

that givesmotion to the .cylinders A by. gearing into a small vbevelfwheel Lon the lower end of the Lshaft `This shaft carries a worm wheel L, that gears into the toothed wheels vM, 4M', that drive the cyl-y i -inders A. vN, is an eccentric on the shaft K,

said eccentric operating as a'crank to vibrate a sword or shipper g, by which thespindles" the opposite ends of said shipper ,operating are transferred from oneV table to the other,

A CIJ necting rod that vibrates the shipper. The eccentric N is loose upon the shaftV K and turns with it by means of clutch pins,rand when these are notengagedthe shaft will turn without t'urningthe eccentric; yIn Fig.V 2, i, z', is a pin that passes `through the body` of the eccentric wheel VN, projecting out above and below it, nearlyin contact with the shaft K; y', and la, are 'clutch pins that project out from the shaft- K, and as the ec?.

centric wheel `is made toslide up and down upon thielshaft, either of the clutch pins may be brou z', z', on the eccentric. K

O, Fig. 2, is a forked lever, that has its fulcrum at Z; its forked ends m, m, embrace the eccentric N, and serve to raise andlower it at theproper times; n, is aspiral spring attached to the forked Dlever, serving to. draw it inward, to depress .the eccentric, and

to cause it to clutch with'the lower' clutch,

pin, when. said lever is not held out 4by force;*0, is the upper end of the forked lever, and p, 3) are,lifting fpieces on the face of the toothed wheel M, which pieces machine and.v causes the cylinder to move.

regularly endwise during its whole revolution, the pitch ofthe screw being such as to adapt it to the distanceof theheddles from each other, which are thus wound spirally and regularly-around the cylinders; the cylinders slide endwise on their aXes g and on the guide rods r, 1'.

Q, Q, are rods that may be inserted into grooves made to receive them in the cylinder, there being two such opposite to each other; these are shown also in the section of the cylinder A, Fig. l. The diameter of the cylinder must be suchas that its semicircumference shall be equal to the intended length of the heddles, after thenumber of heddles required for the harness have been thus formed and wound upon the cylinder, grooved pieces may be slipped over the rods Q, Q, and glued upon them, so as to embrace the twisted strands, as shown in the cross section Fig. 7, where s, 8, are the grooved pieces, that are thus made to constitute, in part, the rods, or shafts of the harness. The heddles may, however, be

made fast to a cord as is frequently done,'or may be combined in any other mode that may be preferred. To render it easy to remove the harness from the cylinders, I usually make each of the latter in two pieces, longitudinally and unite the parts together by screws in such manner as to allow the gh't into contact with the pinV two portions, slightly to approach each other, and thereby to lessen their circumference to a sufficient extent for the ready removal of the harness. Y

The connecting rod h, has a hinge joint at t, allowing it to be lifted offl from the pin on the sword, or shipper g, which is to be the'eye is to'befor'med the connecting rodis to be replaced and again removed for the forming of the sides Lof the eye. The spindles on thetwo pairs of tables are moved by the opposite ends ofthe same shipper. The small bevel wheel J, on the bottom ofthe` shaft K, is, (when there are three spindles),

one-third ofV the diameter ofthe drivingwheels, and makes, therefore, three changes of the spindles in one revolution of the revolving. tables; (were there four spindles the wheel J should be one-fourth of the di- .ameter of the driving wheels). The three spindles on one table haveto be passed over, into the three spaces on the corresponding table, and after the eccentric has performed this officethey have to `be changed back again in order to recross; and to eect this it is necessary that the eccentric should remain at rest during one-half of a revolution, which half revolution represents the distance from one recess a, to another, or one` sixth of the circumference of the revolving tables, as the whole revolution represents one-third. This rest of .the eccentric during the period that would be `due to one half revolution result from the clutch pins j,

and, 7c, being placedl onthe opposite sides of the shaft K, as, when the eccentric wheel is raised or lowered, and' disengaged fromone of the clutch pins the shaft K, must pern forma half revolution before the other is made to clutch as this brings the vacant recesses opposite to those containing a spindlepreparatory t0 their recrossing from one table to the other.

By the procedure, and` use of the machine above' described the parts of `the heddles marked u, u, Fig. 7, will consist of two similar strands continued to such length as is-necessary to it above andbelow the eye, each strand `consisting of three threads of 4done at the yproper time by the attendant, i vand it is to remain off during the time that 'thehtwo strands are to be doubled and twisted that are aboveand below/the eye; when yarn, kdoubled and twisted.` At the points fv, fv, the six yarns that compose the two strands are made torcross,` and recross, and

thereby become interlocked so as to form other, without the formation of avknot or other enlargement where the eyes terminate; a characteristic not existing in harness manufactured in any of the ordinary modes.

Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my machine for the making of Weavers harness, and shown the operations of the same, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The manner of arranging and combining the cylinders A, so as to operate in the manner described; the yarn from the spools passing up to and being wound on said cylinders, as it is doubled, and twisted, and interlocked; the cylinders also being carried regularly forward by means of t-he leading lor guide screws P, so that the whole harness is formed by the successive winding of the heddles; and these respective combinaltions I claim whether the parts be formed and arranged precisely in the manner herein set forth and represented, or in any other that is substantially the same in principle,

effecting the same. end by means substan- 25,.

tially the same.

2. I also claim the combination and arrangement of the respective parts of this apparatus, arranged substantially as de- -scribed by which the respective threads are 30 all doubled, twisted` and braided together to the required extent, and then formed into two distinct cords by doubling and twisting,

alternately, in the manner and for the pur- 

